Gambling with Lives

We are a community of families bereaved by gambling-related suicide that raises awareness of the devastating effects of gambling disorder & campaigns for change The deaths of our loved ones were very sudden out of the blue with no warning. They were not the result of massive gambling debts, rather what gambling had done to their hearts and their heads. Were starting to get evidence from neuroscience that gambling on electronic machines affects mental health and even creates suicidal thoughts. Our children had all struggled with their gambling addiction for years, often being clear for many months at a time ... but always dragged back in by an industry offering free bets and other give-aways. They all felt that they could never break free. No one knows exactly how many deaths there are related to gambling each year; research indicates that there may be between 250 and 650 gambling-related suicides every year in the UK ... a minimum of one every working day. Gambling with Lives ai...